The House of Representatives just held a vote on a resolution to condemn the sexual violence visited on Israelis by Hamas operatives, who raped, tortured, and mutilated girls and women on October 7. And some of those who were taken as hostages back to Gaza have almost certainly continued to be sexually assaulted, as we know from the testimony of some of the hostages who were released in November. Many of the corpses found at the Re’im site, and at the kibbutzim, of girls who had been repeatedly raped and then murdered, displayed bloody vaginas that the rapists had fired at or even into, once they had sated themselves. What fun to mutilate the bodies of Jewish girls, and what fun, too, to slice off the breasts of women and cut the genitalia off the men.
The resolution passed 218-0-1, with only one member of the House — Rashida Tlaib (D-Khan Younis) — dissenting by voting “Present.” Robert Spencer wrote about this at length here, and more on her vote can be found here: “Rashida Tlaib Votes ‘Present’ on US House Condemnation of Hamas’ Use of Sexual Violence,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, February 15, 2024:
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Wednesday [February 14] condemning Hamas’ use of sexual assault as a weapon of war during its October 7 terrorist attack — in which it killed 1,200 Israelis and took almost 250 more hostage — in a near-unanimous vote, with a single exception,
The one “present” vote came from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who argued that she could not vote in favor of the resolution because it does not also accuse the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) of using sexual assault as a weapon of war.
What “sexual assault” has the IDF ever used as a “weapon of war”? We know that the IDF has been accused by some anti-Israel activists of “anti-Arab racism” because its soldiers never have raped Palestinian girls and women; the IDF, you see, is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn’t.
By a vote of 418-0-1, the House passed a resolution that “condemns all rape and forms of sexual violence as weapons of war, including those acts committed by Hamas terrorists on and since October 7th.” It also “calls on all international bodies to unequivocally condemn” Hamas’ actions.
Shamefully, the group UN Women let more than eight weeks go by before, under great pressure, it issued the following statement: “We unequivocally condemn the brutal attacks by Hamas on Israel on 7 October. We are alarmed by the numerous accounts of gender-based atrocities and sexual violence during those attacks.”
Tlaib has emerged as the most outspoken anti-Israel member of the House in recent months. She has accused Israel of committing genocide and has appeared at events with people who celebrated Hamas’ October 7 attack….
Tlaib has still not condemned Hamas for its October 7 attack. Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow member of the anti-Israel Squad, voted for this resolution condemning the sexual violence of Hamas. Ilhan Omar, tellingly, did not vote.
However, in a speech on the floor of the House, Tlaib said, “While the resolution on the floor rightfully denounces any sexual violence by Hamas, I am disturbed that it completely ignores and erases any sexual violence and abuse committed by the Israeli forces, against Palestinians, especially children.”…
Why should Congress condemn something which does not exist — that is, “sexual violence and abuse” committed by the soldiers of the IDF?
Hamas members engaged not just in rape, but in gang-rape, some of it so violent that the victim died of her injuries. These were not just rapes, but rapes, accompanied by mutilation and torture and ultimately, in some cases, murder. Some victims after repeated rapes were shot in their vaginas, left to bleed to death from their wounds. In some cases, Hamas “fighters” cut off the breasts of girls and women, and threw them about — what fun! — for ghastly games of catch. If Rashida Tlaib was unaware of this, she has only to ask to be provided with the eyewitness accounts of survivors, and the videos taken at the field where the Re’im dance party was held, and at the kibbutzim Hamas attacked on October 7, Some of those videos were taken by Hamas perpetrators themselves, eager to show their friends and relatives in Gaza the splendid “acts of resistance” which they had committed in Israel.
Rashida Tlaib has now gone beyond all decency. She refused to join all 418 of her Congressional colleagues in condemning Hamas for its “sexual violence” — which she now admits did take place but insists she could not vote for the resolution because there was no mention, and equal condemnation, of “sexual violence” by soldiers of the IDF. But in the four wars that Israel had to fight for its survival — in 1948, 1967, 1973, and 2023-2024 — and in the half-dozen lesser campaigns it has been forced to wage against the terror groups PLO, Hamas, and Hezbollah, there are no reports of sexual assaults by IDF soldiers. She should no longer be considered a member of the Squad. Rashida Tlaib is really in a class by herself.
rick says
Rashida Tlaib has exited herself from the Human Race. She has chosen instead to be a part of the Hamas Race which celebrates everything that the Human Race deplores. She also has become an honorary Nazi saluted by the likes of the SS and those who ran the Concentration Camps who threw Jewish children and infants into the gas ovens. This was done by Hamas on Oct 7th as well by using the stoves in Jewish homes to accomplish this unspeakable crime. Tlaib wishes that the IDF committed crimes of a sexual nature and show themselves to be sexual deviates as Hamas has shown themselves to be. But that is not and never have been done by armies who fight for the survival of Jews and Israel. In fact a Palestinian PhD. candidate at an Israeli University offered a thesis condemning Jews in the IDF to being racist precisely because they never raped and abused Palestinian women. Her thesis alleges that all armies in history raped and pillaged in their wars EXCEPT the IDF thus proving that they held Palestinian women to belong to such an inferior race that it was beneath them to do so thus earning the label of “racist”! Her Jewish professors praised her thesis also proving how the University System in Israel can be just as flawed and absurd as the American university system as has been proven lately.
Goofy says
The resolution was completely unnecessary and useless. Kidnapping and sexual assault are already war crimes and it is an embarrassment that this fundamental fact was not known or taken into consideration when the resolution was drafted.
It just goes to demonstrate that today’s law givers are clueless about the existing laws.
When it comes to Tlaib she of course couldn’t condemn Hamas, which acts according to Islamic law and does not respect the laws of the infidels.
We truly have a clash of civilizations. When the book was written there was hardly any proof of such a scenario. Was it written as a script of things to come, orchestrated by evil forces?
somehistory says
r. tlaib, a.k.a. snake in human form, feculent sack of maggot debris.
This piece of devil trash does not deserve to be paid, nor should she be allowed to represent anyone, as she represents satan, doing the “desires of her father.”
She will reap as she is sowing…in full measure.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
What exactly is the difference b/w voting Present, which Rashida did, vs not voting, which Ilhan did? Why are the attacks exclusively on Tlaib and not Omar as well?
somehistory says
Perhaps i. elmi, alias, omar, didn’t say anything and r. tlaib said all those lies about Israel.?
There were several others who took the same way as i. elmi, and nothing has been said about them either.
OLD GUY says
Both Rashida and Omar are slime. Neither one will stand up for wrong as long as Islam is involved in it. We really don’t need these muslim/islamic people in American political positions right off the boat. Our country needs to but a law on the books that require all members of Congress, House of
Representatives, Department heads of Federal Agencies and the President to be THIRD generation American citizens.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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Graham Bryant says
islam and muslims are the cause of all this evil-understand that!
Frank John Kupferer says
tlaib is an animal just like the rest of hamas and the other assorted jihadi’s in Qatar, Iran ect.
Naja says
They took an oath to represent America and American interests and values. They should be tried for Treason an if found guilty, face a firing squad.
Scotsman48 says
Omar wants to protect Somalia and Talib flies the palestine Flag rather than the American Flag outside her Office.
So two members of Congress that support a foreign power that’s against the USA.
I wonder if that silly silly wee lassie Talib knows that Palestine has never even been an actual country and such people were known as Arabs right up until the mid 1960s and that the first Palestine Flag had a Star of David in the Centre therefore she may be shocked to know that the first Palestinians were actually Jews.
Violet says
Omar and Talib should have their citizenships revoked….along with anyone else siding with monsterous Islamist terrorists.
Violet says
Omar and Talib should have their citizenships revoked….along with anyone else siding with monsterous Islamist terrorists.